CNET Update - Siri listens for Podcasts, Cortana seeks new smarts
CNET Update - Siri listens for Podcasts, Cortana seeks new smarts
2014-05-16
good news there will be more ways to
talk to your gadgets I'm Bridget Carey
and this is your cnet update Siri has
learned a few new tricks Apple's voice
assistant now understands your commands
to play your favorite podcast Apple
updated its podcasts app so you can ask
Siri to play all your favorite podcasts
by saying the command play podcast or
you could just play a specific one by
naming the episode or show like cnet
update the podcast app also works with
apples car play and it lets you share
links using airdrop but Siri isn't the
only smart assistant getting an upgrade
it appears that there's more in store
for Microsoft's Cortana and maybe we'll
find her eventually on Windows PCs or
tablets well at least that's the
takeaway from a job listing on
Microsoft's website the posting seeks an
engineer to help shape the evolution of
Microsoft's digital assistant and
redefine the personalization experience
on windows so that could be more
platforms than just the Windows Phone
Cortana is rolling out to new Windows
Phones this month and she'll be in an
update on existing windows phones
sometime in June there is something new
coming soon from the windows surfaced
world Microsoft is holding an event in
new york tuesday to unveil surface news
Microsoft calls it quote a small event
which is likely a tease to the
much-rumored surface mini that would be
a windows tablet with a 7 or 8 inch
screen similar to the ipad mini but
there may be more sources still seen it
that Microsoft is planning to release an
update of the surface pro with Intel's
latest Haswell chipset we'll find out
for sure on Tuesday May twentieth you
can watch the news event live on cnet at
eight a.m. pacific 11 a.m. eastern in
other Microsoft news let's switch over
to the Xbox owners of an xbox will no
longer have to pay for a live gold
account to be able to access several
apps like Netflix finally no more pay
wall just use the programs you already
pay for and when the switch happens in
June you can request a pro-rated refund
on the xbox support site to cancel the
rest of your gold subscription folks
have until the end of august to ask for
that refund but you'll probably want
that subscription come next year when
the new halo game comes out Master Chief
returns in halo 5 guardians of the
galaxy it's out in the fall of 2015 for
the Xbox one console we don't know much
about the story but game maker 343
industries released a statement saying
it will be a bigger effort to make than
halo 4 because it's going to take full
advantage of the xbox one's hardware
that's your tech news update you can
find more on these stories at cnet com
from our studios in New York I'm Bridget
Carey
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